Mark Twitchell Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Mark Twitchell is a Canadian filmmaker, actor, and convicted murderer. He is best known for his 2008 film House of Cards, which was based on his own life. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 for the killing of Johnny Altinger. Twitchell was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 4, 1979. He attended the University of Alberta, where he studied film and television production. After graduating, he worked as a freelance filmmaker and actor. Twitchell's career as a filmmaker began in 2006, when he wrote and directed a short film called "The Devil's Carnival". He followed this up with the feature-length film "House of Cards", which was released in 2008. Twitchell's career came to an abrupt end in October 2008, when he was arrested and charged with the murder of Johnny Altinger. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Twitchell's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He earned most of his wealth from his career as a filmmaker and actor.

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Twitchell's case was featured on the American newsmagazine Crime Watch Daily on May 1, 2017. Much of that day's program focused on Twitchell's methods and featured interviews with Gilles Tetrault, his first intended victim, and Steve Lillebuen, author of the book The Devil's Cinema, which focused on the case. Part of the report included a return trip by Tetrault to the garage in which the incident had taken place.

The attempted murder charge against Twitchell was dropped. Detectives were adamant they had gathered a mountain of evidence – much of it revealed during the murder trial – while even Twitchell himself admitted on the witness stand to committing the attack. In preparing the case for trial, the Crown had argued in court for both the attempted murder and first-degree murder charges to be heard simultaneously as they were part of the same "transaction" of his attempt to become a serial killer. Under Canadian law, charges can only be heard together if they are linked in some way. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terry Clackson was not convinced by the prosecution's argument that the attack on the first victim, Gilles Tetreault, and the murder of Johnny Altinger were part of the same transaction. He ordered the charges to be severed and heard separately. "The offences are related and connected, but remain discrete," Justice Clackson wrote in his reasons for the decision. "As a result, the attempted murder charge cannot stand on the same indictment as the charge of murder because they are different transactions." A conviction of first-degree murder in April 2011 secured a maximum sentence — life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years — and, therefore, eliminated any need to proceed with more charges.

In May 2013, it was reported that Twitchell had purchased a television for his prison cell. Twitchell stated that he had caught up on every Dexter episode that he missed since he was arrested and convicted of first-degree murder.

Following his first-degree murder conviction, Twitchell used the extensive media coverage of his case as grounds for an appeal. He argued in his notice of appeal that "the media attention surrounding my case was so extensive, so blatant and so overtly sensationalized that it is unreasonable to expect any unsequestered jury to have remained uninfluenced by it, regardless of judges' instructions in the charge." However, he then abandoned his appeal in 2012.

In December 2012, Michael C. Hall, the actor who plays Dexter Morgan on the Dexter television series, was interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on the Canadian radio show Q. Hall stated that he did not think Dexter supported the lifestyle of serial killers. "I would hope that people's appreciation was more than some sort of fetishization with the kill scenes," he said. Ghomeshi brought up Twitchell and Hall said, "I wouldn't stop making Dexter because someone was fascinated by it only in that way. I try to tell myself that their fixated nature would have done it one way or the other, but it seems that Dexter had something to do with it. It's horrifying."

On June 17, 2011, an attempted murder charge against Twitchell was stayed in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, meaning that Crown prosecutors could resurrect the charge within a one-year period.

Twitchell's victim, John Brian "Johnny" Altinger, was a 38-year-old man who worked as an oilfield equipment manufacturer. On October 10, 2008, Altinger informed his friends of his plans to meet a woman he had been chatting with on the online dating website Plenty of Fish.

The police, not believing this story, arrested him on October 31, 2008, and, on the same day, charged with the first-degree murder of Altinger.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Twitchell dreamt of making blockbuster films. Twitchell had directed Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion, a 2007 full-length fan film prequel set a few days prior to the original film. Secrets of the Rebellion included a cameo by Jeremy Bulloch, a British actor best known for his role as the Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett. The film, still in post-production, never saw release. He had also scripted Day Players, a buddy comedy. In September 2008, he shot a short horror film entitled House of Cards at a garage he rented in the south end of Edmonton.

Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 for killing John Brian "Johnny" Altinger. His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan. The character appears in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay and the television drama Dexter.

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